Re: Hughes/Plath
Brendan McKennedy (suburbantourist@hotmail.com)
Sun, 18 Jan 1998 20:57:22 -0800 (PST)
> Hughes rarely has spoken about
> Plath, and is blamed by some of
> her admirers for her death.
>
I find this amusing, since Plath, in her poetry, blamed Hughes for her
want to kill herself. See "Daddy", where she parallels Ted to herself,
calls him a vampire who ruined her life, and in the poem's fantasy,
kills him along with her father. Also, in "The Applicant", she tells of
her purely utilitarian role as a wife. And besides that, in another
Ariel poem whose titles escapes me, "the Gift", perhaps, her lover gives
her a gift for her birthday, and it is death.
One only needs to look at photographs of Hughes to see that he is an
arrogant, self-important, humorless man.
Of course, I happen to be an admirer of Sylvia Plath.
Brendan
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